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Above the
law
Advance
guard
Against the
law
American
Patrol
( Glenn Miller song )
As Irish as Paddy's
pig
As fat as a
pig
As happy as a
pig
in muck
Black and white
Bleeding like a stuck
pig
Bow and arrow squad
Boys in blue
Brush with the
law
Canteen culture ( boorish behaviour by rank and file police or soldiers )
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Cherry top
Citizen's
arrest
Click it or ticket ( United States seat belt
law
advertising slogan )
Cold Mountain ( Jude
Law
/ Renee Zellweger / Nicole Kidman movie )
Command and
control
Control
freak
Cop
a feel
Cop
a packet
Cop
a plea
Cop
an attitude
Cop
an attitude ( adopt an aggressive stance )
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Cop
hold of that
Cop
killer
Cop
off
Cop
one
Cop
out
Cop
shop
Copper
bottomed
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Cost
control
Costa Del
Crime
Crime
And Punishment ( Fyodor Dostoyevsky book )
Crime
Dog ( Nickname of baseball player Fred McGriff )
Crime
against nature
Crime
doesn't pay
Crime
of passion
Crowd
control
Cruise
control
Dawn
patrol
Don't Stand So Close To Me ( Police song )
Don't you just love being in control? ( British Gas advertising slogan )
Drop a dime
Drop your
guard
Eat like a
pig
Evenin' all ( A catchphrase from Dixon Of Dock Green )
Every Breath You Take ( The Police song )
Every Little Thing She Does Is Magic ( Police song )
Fall foul of the
law
Federal agent ( An employee of a US federal agency )
Furry crocodile ( military slang term for a
guard
dog )
Go to
law
Good cop, bad
cop
Guard
against
Hands up if you use Right Guard, Hands down if you don't ( Right
Guard
antiperspirant advertising slogan )
Hard cases make bad
law
Hello, hello, what's going on here then?
Helping the police with their enquiries
Highway
Patrol
His word is
law
I Shot The
Sheriff
( Eric Clapton song )
I
arrest
you in the name of the
law
I fought the
law
and the
law
won
If you can't do the time, don't do the
crime
In a pig's eye
In the eyes of the
law
It's a fair
cop
Known to the police
Law
abiding
Law
and order
Law
unto oneself
Lay the
law
down
Let the punishment fit the
crime
Let's be careful out there ( A catchphrase from Hill Street Blues )
Like a
pig
from a gun
Like a
pig
in muck
Lipstick on a
pig
Lose
control
Make a
pig
of yourself
Male chauvinist
pig
Mama Bear
Men in blue
Message in A Bottle ( Police song )
Mind how you go ( A catchphrase from Dixon of Dock Green )
New York's finest
Nose for
crime
Not much
cop
Now then now then now then
Off your
guard
On
guard
On the beat
One
law
for the rich and another for the poor
Out of
control
Outside the
law
Partners in
crime
Pig
ignorant
Pig
in a poke
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Pig
in the python
Pig
out
Pig
sty
Pig's ear ( Cockney rhyming slang for beer )
Police state
Portion
control
Possession is nine tenths of the
law
Quality
control
Radio
control
Resisting
arrest
Rubber bullet ( a bullet made of rubber or plastic and used for riot
control
)
Serve and protect
Spiral out of
control
Suckling
pig
( an unweaned piglet )
Sweat like a
pig
Take a bite out of
crime
Take a bite out of crime! ( National
Crime
Prevention Council advertising slogan )
Take someone to
law
Take the
law
into your own hands
The Adventure of the
Copper
Beeches ( Sherlock Holmes story )
The Body
Guard
( Nickname of Baron Davis )
The
Copper
State ( Nickname of the US state of Arizona )
The Flying Squad ( Nickname of the Specialist
Crime
Directorate, New Scotland Yard )
The Guinea
Pig
State ( Nickname of the US state of Arkansas )
The Mountie always gets his man
The Napoleon of
Crime
( Nickname of Professor Moriarty )
The Old Bill
The Shadow knows ( A catchphrase from the
crime
fighting vigilante )
The army national guard, you can ( US Army National
Guard
advertising slogan )
The bobby on the beat
The cat who doesn't act finicky soon loses
control
of his owner ( 9 Lives Cat Food advertising slogan )
The changing of the
guard
The
law
is an ass
The
law
of averages
The
law
of diminishing returns
The
law
of the jungle
The
law
of the land
The letter of the
law
The long arm of the
law
The perfect
crime
There ought to be a
law
There's no
law
against it
Thought police
To market, to market, to buy a fat
pig
Tom Tom the pipers son stole a
pig
and away he ran ( line from nursery rhyme )
Tough on crime, tough on the causes of
crime
( Tony Blair political slogan )
Undercover
cop
Walking On The Moon ( The Police song )
We've got you covered
You can't top the
copper
top ( Duracell Batteries advertising slogan )
You'll never take me alive
copper
Yum Yum, pig's bum
Zero tolerance